Many top nationalist generals, including Chiang, had studied and trained in Japan before the Nationalists had returned to the mainland in the 1920s, and maintained close personal friendships with top Japanese officers.

Many luthiers consider the top the dominant factor in determining the sound quality.

Many bodies consist of good sounding but inexpensive woods, like ash, with a " top ," or thin layer of another, more attractive wood ( such as maple with a natural " flame " pattern ) glued to the top of the basic wood.

Many of their records feature the top session players of the era, and their arrangements, with multiple key changes and complex vocal harmonies, reflected a high level of craftsmanship.

Many theoretical search techniques for detecting Kaluza-Klein Resonances have been proposed using the mass couplings of such resonances with the top quark, however until the LHC reaches full operational power observation of such resonances are unlikely.

Many modern kayaks have modified the traditional design in various ways, such as: eliminating the cockpit by seating the paddler on top of the boat (" sit-on-top " kayaks ); having inflated air chambers surrounding the boat ; replacing the single hull by twin hulls (" W " kayak ), and replacing paddles with other human powered propulsion methods, such as foot-powered rotational propellers and ' flippers '.

Many pencils feature an eraser on the top and so the process is usually still considered incomplete at this point.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

Many ski manufacturers label their skis with the turning radius on the top.

Many turbine rotor blades have shrouding at the top, which interlocks with that of adjacent blades, to increase damping and thereby reduce blade flutter.

Many of Warner's top stars were considering quitting because of their absence.

Many of the American generals who were given top commands during the war were either picked or recommended by Marshall, including Dwight Eisenhower, Lloyd Fredendall, Leslie McNair, Mark Wayne Clark and Omar Bradley.

Many higher level protocols including TCP ( a connection-oriented service ) depend on IP's Datagram service, laying additional functionality on top.

Many athletes receive scholarships to four-year universities after playing at Pierce — and Pierce has some of the top sports facilities in the San Fernando Valley.

Many writers since the 1970s had been hailed as his successor, but none had attained anything near his popularity with children and, in a poll conducted shortly after the launch of Philosopher's Stone, seven of the ten most popular children's books were by Dahl, including the one in top place.

Many languages show mixed accusative and ergative behaviour ( for example: ergative morphology marking the verb arguments, on top of an accusative syntax ).

Many top architects and civil engineers from Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other cities and thousands of workers from all parts of the USSR took part in the rebuilding process which was mostly finished by the mid-1950s.

Many of the current top division wrestlers entered professional sumo by this route.

Many working-class Mexican men in American cities wear their hair in styles like the Mongolian ( shaved except for a tuft of hair at the nape of the neck ) or the rat tail ( crewcut on top, tuft at the nape ), and African-Americans often wear their hair in complex patterns of braids and cornrows, fastened with barrettes and beads, and sometimes including shaved sections or bright colour.

Many of Britain's top actors, including John Gielgud, Robert Morley and Joyce Grenfell, paid tribute at a memorial service, where 90-year-old Sybil Thorndike praised her friend's enormous talent and recalled that Rutherford had " never said anything horrid about anyone ".

Many observers noted that despite his lengthy layoff from competitive tournaments, Sampras still possessed many of the previous skills he had displayed while on the ATP tour, with tennis legend John McEnroe going as far as to say that Sampras would be worthy of a top five seeding at Wimbledon were he to enter the tournament.

Many were to serve in the bloodiest battles of the war, such as ex-miner Dick Trafford who took part in the Battle of Loos, and Frank Lindley who, seeking to avenge his dead brother, went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Many domestic rankings place Peking University amongst the top universities in China.

Many mental health professionals use the manual to determine and help communicate a patient's diagnosis after an evaluation ; hospitals, clinics, and insurance companies in the US also generally require a ' five axis ' DSM diagnosis of all the patients treated.

Many professionals in this discipline attempt to find general rules that apply to all natural languages.

Many health care professionals consider the risk of leaving these conditions undiagnosed to be much greater than the very small risk, if any, associated with undergoing an ultrasound scan.

Many professionals in local authorities and the NHS are employed to halt this decline by ensuring that the built environment allows people to walk and that there are walking opportunities available to them.

Many of Britain's IT professionals gained their early experiences on Acorns, which were often more technically advanced than commercially successful US hardware.

Many health professionals suggest that, for best results, one should wear braces at night and, if possible, during the activity primarily causing stress on the wrists.

Many professionals in this discipline attempt to find general rules that apply to all natural languages in the context of historical linguistics, how characteristics of sentence structure in related languages changed over time.

Many volunteers work alongside the paid professionals.

Many medical professionals and numerous professional associations have stated that surgical interventions should not be required in order for transsexual individuals to change sex designation on identity documents.

Many of the purchasers were professionals and other friends of the investors and the Fair Oaks community was initially composed primarily of businessmen and other professionals, including bankers and engineers.

Many residents are professionals who commute to McKinney, Frisco, Plano, Dallas and neighboring communities.

Many of the hospital's health professionals and researchers teach in the Faculties of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Many professionals also use these drums for outdoor performances due to their durability and lighter weight.

Many of the attendees at DEF CON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, security researchers, and hackers with a general interest in computer code, computer architecture, phone phreaking, hardware modification, and anything else that can be " hacked ".

Many professionals or interested amateurs now consult extensive benchmark tests to determine system performance on various applications.

Many consumers and professionals are very aware that sex is an effective tool for selling but this question should be asked, " Does it work?

Many businesses and professionals were unable to operate under such requirements.

Many Colorado Mountain College instructors are local professionals that teach at the college part-time.

Many professionals and academics consider that the general features of Fuzzy Front End ( fuzziness, ambiguity, and uncertainty ) make it difficult to see the FFE as a structured process, but rather as a set of interdependent activities ( e. g. Kim and Wilemon, 2002 ).

Many professionals considered the word " philanthropy " to sound unnecessarily pretentious, pompous, pedantic, and in any case meaningless because the Classical view had been lost entirely, with the decline of the humanities and the classics in education.

Many corporations own large ( 9m to 45m wide ) marquee tents but have them installed and maintained by qualified professionals.

Many people have refused to believe that George Reeves would kill himself and have pointed out that no gunpowder from the gun's discharge was found on the actor's skin, leading them to believe that the weapon would therefore have to have been held several inches away from his head upon firing ; however, forensic professionals say that gunpowder tattooing is left only when the weapon is not in contact with the skin while Reeves ' skull fracture pattern shows that it was a contact wound.

Many medical professionals and some anorexics have always taken affront to pro-ana as a glamorization of a serious illness.

Many professionals are using composite stick technology rather than wooden sticks.